Origins: Where I'm Coming From

The Bible fascinates me. I love the story of God and people--and the way that even when all seems lost, there is still space for love, for hope, for grace. It's captivating in a divinely brilliant way.

My whole life falls into this story about how God pursues people with reckless abandon, loving them far beyond the limits of human comprehension, and seeks to restore them to a real, meaningful life. In the context of community and scholarship, God has been richly revealed to me in the way of doubts, reasons, faith, and wisdom.

For now, there are a few verses from the prophet Isaiah that capture what change I hope to participate in during this year of growth and love, a time of flood to a place of drought:

When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the LORD will answer them;
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and in the dry land springs of water.

Isaiah 41.17-18, ESV

Now my vocation--my calling--is to share this personal experience of lifechange, to share how God has provided for my own deepest thirsts with others. With college students in Sweden, specifically, but we'll get to that story shortly.